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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 112: The Planes
For my purposes, it’s certainly handy that Paizo decided to title every issue of Dragon that they published, though sometimes those titles are a bit… uninspired. “The Planes” is issue #353 of the magazine…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 111: Cormyr: Tearing of the Weave
It’s not that adventuring in the Plane of Shadows is inherently dull, it’s just that as of the end of third edition no one has figured out how to make it interesting yet. At…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 110: Beyond the World Serpent Inn
Like a lot of people, I was thrilled when Paizo decided that its campaign classics issue would be an annual tradition… though unfortunately, the company would only manage to print three of these total…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part ???: Monster Ecologies
Starting with the second edition of AD&D, I’ve been pretty thorough in covering practically every planar-related article that’s graced the pages of Dragon, Dungeon, and even Polyhedron magazines. Yes, there were a few peripheral…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 109: Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells
I’m always entertained when multiple volumes of nominally the same series use massively different structures, and this pattern has long been a weird part of D&D. Planes of Law, Planes of Chaos, and Planes…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 108: Dragon Magazine Goes “Elemental”
The last series of articles in our catchily titled “cavalcade of mediocre planar content from Paizo’s magazines at the end of 2006” comes from the “Elementals” issue of Dragon (#347, September 2006). This is…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 107: Dungeons & Dullness
Perhaps due to Paizo’s surprising interest in the planes, at the end of its run with Dragon and Dungeon magazines the company printed a crazy amount of planar, or at least planar-adjacent, material. While…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 106: Monster Manual IV & More Planar Dragons
For whatever random reason, the end of third edition D&D featured an awful lot of planar content. At the same time, much of this content wasn’t terribly good or memorable. As a result of…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 105: Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss
Despite my many complaints about what came of D&D‘s cosmology since Planescape’s unceremonious end, there have been a handful of quite good planar releases in D&D‘s third edition. Bastion of Broken Souls remains a…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 104: Tome of Magic (Third Edition)
By 2006, D&D‘s third edition had been out for more than half a decade, and as such Wizards of the Coast was experimenting with ways of pushing the boundaries of their system. Really, the…
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